How many times has a close game of RL come away with a score sheet that dosn't tell the whole story because one team has run away with it in the last 10 - 15 minutes of a half, due to tired legs?
One way of resolving the situation is, of course, to continue to raise fitness levels. But people, there is another way...........
How would people feel if the game was not two halfs, but four 20 minute quarters with 5 minute intervals and unlimited interchanges. There would never be those awful dead periods where teams fall on their feet or run away with games. Pressure could be maintained with fresh legs being injected into a side and so forth.
This is an idea well and truly pinchd from Ice Hockey, which is nothing more than RL on ice. It works well for them (they have threee 20 minute periods). If the men at the top need ideas to inject a party atmsphere and fun into our game they could do worse than look toward Ice Hockey.
Time Please, Gentlemen
Time Please, Gentlemen
Man and ball, man and ball!